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* Ichigo Kurosaki from ''[[Bleach]]'' has a brief one after his friends are almost {{spoiler|killed by Yammy}} and he was unable to save them because of his inner psycho. After visiting Orihime in the hospital, Ichigo basically shuts down internally because of his failure. Then Rukia kicks him in the head and forces him to handle his problems rather than freaking out about them.
** Also when {{spoiler|Ichigo transforms back into himself after stabbing Ishida and Ulquiorra pulls the sword out}}, he majorly freezes up, unable to grasp how he could have done such a thing.
** Orihime barely manages to get out of an ''epic'' one that hit her in full force after she and Ishida witness Ichigo, the first person she has loved since her brother died, {{spoiler|being nearly ''killed'' by Ulquiorra}}...only to {{spoiler|witness Ichigo turn into ''[[Super
** After {{spoiler|[[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|accidentally impaling]] his childhood friend/the one person he has sworn to protect with all his being}}, {{spoiler|Hitsugaya}} briefly goes into one. {{spoiler|He then attacks Aizen in a blind fury and gets cut down for his trouble.}}
** In the fourth movie, Ichigo [http://kokoro-beat.tumblr.com/post/16024184315 suffers another massive BSOD] after {{spoiler|Kokuto kills not only several of his friends, but also ''his little sister Yuzu''. And then taunts him with the girl's lifeless body.}}
** The X-Cution arc brings one so bad for Ichigo that he almost crosses the [[Despair Event Horizon]] {{spoiler|after Tsukishima brainwashes his friends and sisters and drives them against him}}, and '''then''' {{spoiler|Ginjo reveals that he and Tsukishima are the [[Big Bad Duumvirate]]}}. This reduces poor Ichigo to a complete mess, {{spoiler|and it takes a MASSSIVE intervention from the shinigami to get him fixed}}.
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** In ROD: The TV, all of the Paper Sisters, especially Maggie and Anita more so, suffer from collective [[Heroic BSOD|Heroic BSODs]] when {{spoiler|Joker reveals that them becoming sisters, their powers, and all of their memories from before their joining were all planned.}}
* Chrono suffers from this ''several'' times in ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'', although the worst is probably after the [[It Got Worse|disastrous]] battle at the carnival mid-way through the series. In the manga he goes so far as to go into an [[Angst Coma]] over it.
* In ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', when the title character is confronted by the [[One
** He later has a more traditional BSOD when Jack Rakan reveals how weak Negi is compared to his enemies.
** And has a [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v04/c033/19.html more comedic one] when a series of stressful events is followed by [[Shrinking Violet|Nodoka]] confessing her love for him.
** Yue has a dramatic one when {{spoiler|she finally accepts that she does, in fact, love Negi; believing that she's betrayed her best friend (the aforementioned Nodoka) by [[Matchmaker Crush|developing feelings for Negi herself]] when [[Shipper On Deck|she's supposed to be supporting Nodoka's relationship with him]]. Nodoka, of course, doesn't look at it that way and has to [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!|slap Yue out of it]].}} The breakdown is even more pronounced due to Yue mostly being an [[Emotionless Girl]] up to that point.
*** She later subverts it, as it looks like she will go into another {{spoiler|when her classmate from the magic academy Emily is erased from existence in her arms}}, but once her other friends {{spoiler|Colette and Beatrice}} are under attack she reacts and joins them in the fight.
*** Negi has an epic one in the [[Gecko Ending]] of the anime, after {{spoiler|Asuna dies. He manages to hold it back for a short while, but then he finds one of the bells she used to wear in her hair and completely breaks down. He does eventually find a way to save her.}}
** In the manga, {{spoiler|Asuna}} has a ''massive'' one after {{spoiler|Fate undoes her [[Laser
*** Although subverted in that all except for the last few minutes of that was not shown on screen.
** Negi has ''yet another'' one of these when he starts realizing just [[Love Dodecahedron|how]] [[Unwanted Harem|many]] [[Shotacon|of his]] [[Hot for Student|students]] like him ''that'' way. Notably, while he BSOD'd at being informed that there were two more besides the one he knew about, ''[[Up to Eleven|there were several haremettes that the person cluing him in had left out]]''.
** And his most profound one was when the reveal exactly why and who was behind {{spoiler|his home town getting [[Petrified]] so enraged Nodoka's [[Mind Probe|Mind Reading book]] [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v29/c265/9.html turns black with thoughts of "Kill them" and "Do Not Forgive"] which requires an [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|Epic]] [[Bright Slap]] from [[Meta Guy|Chisame]] to slap him out of it}}.
* Being as ''[[Naru Taru]]'' is an unapologetically brutal [[Deconstruction]] of the [[Mon]] genre, lead character [[Action Girl|Shiina Tamai]] is rather prone to this trope. The first time it happens is after {{spoiler|a painful [[Shoot the Dog]] scenario, in which [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|her crazed friend Hiroko]] is killed by Shiina's mon Hoshimaru right in front of her}}. Several volumes later, {{spoiler|she learns at the ''worst'' possible time that Hoshimaru isn't actually ''hers'', but instead belongs to her ally [[Manipulative Bastard|Takeo]].}} Finally, {{spoiler|witnessing the [[Heroic Sacrifice]] of her beloved father Shunji}} leaves her in such a terrible state that {{spoiler|her friend Akira - a ''[[Shrinking Violet]]'' - has to [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!|slap her out of it]].}}
* From [[Mohiro Kitoh|the same author]], there's ''[[Bokurano]]'''s [[Deconstruction]] of the [[Humongous Mecha]] genre, and as such it also features more than one of these.
** When {{spoiler|Masaru "Kodama" Kodaka}} realises that {{spoiler|he accidentally killed his father in his battle}}, he blanks out and starts with a [[Madness Mantra]]: "There's no way {{spoiler|my dad}} could've died... there's no way {{spoiler|my dad}} could've died..."
** {{spoiler|Aiko "Anko" Tokosumi}} has another in the anime when {{spoiler|the kids find out that Youko Machi is [[The Mole]]}}, screaming and [[Armor
** {{spoiler|Jun Ushiro}} has another in the manga, during his battle. {{spoiler|He almost cracks because of the pressure on him and his situation as a [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]] and [[Vomit Indiscretion Shot|throws up]] over his clothes. After putting on a [[Custom Uniform]], though, he gets somewhat better and finishes his match, passing away afterwards.}}
* This happens with Ayato in ''[[Rah Xephon]]'' during episode 19 after realizing that the Dolem he destroyed was {{spoiler|directly connected to his friend, Hiroko Asahina, killing her in the process}}. What's especially brutal is that {{spoiler|he realizes this after reading her confession of love and a goodbye written in city lights}}.
* The titular character in ''[[Ranma One Half]]'' all but shuts down when he believes {{spoiler|Akane has died}}. He snaps back to form when he finds out {{spoiler|she hasn't, not ''yet'', but is in desperate danger anyway}}.
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** Let's not forget Misato, who suffered one as a child after her father {{spoiler|sacrificed his life to save her.}}
* A far less serious version of this is Dororo from ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'', whose "Trauma Switch" (triggered by feeling ignored, or by a reminder of how Keroro took advantage of him in their childhood) would frequently cause him to sulk in the [[Corner of Woe]], on the verge of tears. In one episode this became a plot point, where the Trauma Switch got "stuck", and Keroro, Tamama, and Giroro had to [[Journey to The Center of The Mind|enter Dororo's mind]] to fix things. Ironically, Keroro can sometimes go through something similar when all the pent-up remorse from being ''responsible'' for Dororo's childhood trauma kicks in.
** In an earlier episode, the Garuru Platoon's invasion is pinned on Keroro at first, and even his best friend Fuyuki doesn't believe in his innocence. Keroro is reduced to an emotional wreck as a result. [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!|Cue Giroro's intervention]] (though it only made Keroro feel [[It Got Worse|worse]]).
** New character [[Hospital Hottie|Pururu]] gets something like this as well, shutting down as she quietly babbles to herself, whenever anyone calls her ''[[Oba-san]]''. The fact that she's Keroro's childhood sweetheart, and he's possibly a few hundred years old, makes her the oldest female in the show...
* A similar situation happens in ''[[Serial Experiments Lain]]'' halfway through the series. {{spoiler|Lain Iwakura's older sister Mika is shocked beyond description after witnessing all the weirdness caused by Lain. During the rest of the series, she spends most of her time staring into blank space, pretending she's calling someone by phone and murmuring "Bee bee bee... ga ga", imitating the phone sound.}} If you look closely, this can be explained by {{spoiler|Mika's mind slipping into the Wired and getting lost forever}}.
** Or even better with that {{spoiler|she's an imperfect copy that slowly deteriorates after the original was deleted from reality - the episode ends with Mika coming face to face with herself, and then only the other Mika remains. Lain walks past and briefly sees the original Mika's fading ghost with horrified expression on her face.}}
** A much shorter BSOD also happens to {{spoiler|Alice after Lain [[Laser
* More than once in ''[[Soukou no Strain]]''.
* Yusuke Urameshi during the fight Dark Tournament finals in ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho (Manga)|Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', where Toguro {{spoiler|pretends to kill Kuwabara in order to bring Yusuke's [[Power Level]] to his own level becoming a [[Worthy Opponent]]}} Interesting though at this time, his [[Battle Aura]] becomes the polar opposite of Toguro's own [[Battle Aura]] which killed well over a quarter of the stadium's spectators.
** After Toguro kills {{spoiler|Genkai}}, Yusuke falls into a huge funk for the following episode. {{spoiler|Part of the reason is he blames himself for her death, as just prior to this she had transferred her power to him. Yusuke felt that she hadn't done so, then maybe she could have survived against Toguro.}} Koenma is able to later to get his fighting spirit back with a pep talk.
* Yugi in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' was plunged into a near-catatonic state after losing a duel to Seto Kaiba on the ramparts of Pegasus' castle. Kaiba played a desperate and cruel [[Batman Gambit]] in order to win: he stood on the edge of the castle wall and threatened to jump to his death if Yugi attacked his Blue Eyes White Dragon. Yugi's Heroic BSOD was brought on when he had to stop the Pharaoh from ''killing'' Kaiba, which for the first time ''fully'' alerted him to the presence of his [[Knight Templar]] of an "other self" and made him realize just how dangerous it could be. {{spoiler|Anzu half-pulled him out of it after duelling with Mai, but it wasn't until ''his'' duel with Mai that Yugi fully recovered.}}
** Kaiba, of course, takes awhile to recover mentally whenever he loses a duel: [[Yu-Gi-Oh!:
** Atem/The Pharaoh has his turn in the Doma arc when he gives in to his inner darkness, plays the [[Artifact of Doom|Seal of Orichalcos]], and loses Yugi's soul.
* Judai Yuki in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh GX]]'' goes into this state after realizing {{spoiler|all the suffering [[Stalker With a Crush|Yubel]] caused his friends -- including forcing a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] out of his new [[Ho Yay]] partner Johan/Jesse -- was because of its twisted devotion to ''him'' and ire at being launched into space. Not only is Judai stuck in a catatonic state of guilt soon afterwards, but becomes obsessed with finding Johan alone.}} Judai's subsequent discovery of his [[Super
* Yusei Fudo gets his turn in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh 5 Ds]]'' after his almost-lethal duel with Kalin, his former best friend/BigBrotherMentor who has come [[Back From the Dead]] as a Dark Signer out to kill Yusei in revenge for supposedly betraying him and causing his arrest and death. [[The Power of Friendship]], Aki as a [[A Friend in Need]], some lecturing from his [[Apron Matron]] Martha, and a [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]] beatdown from Jack combine to snap him out of it.
** Jack had his own period of depression and guilt brought on by losing his title to Yusei and realizing the full impact of everything he'd done, all the lies he'd lived by and betraying his friends to get to the top. Carly helps to snap him out of it, and he later pleads [[Love Redeems]] in response to the [[Big Bad]]'s [[Hannibal Lecture]] during the [[Final Battle]].
* When the true identity of Deep Blue is revealed, poor Ichigo of ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' is shocked into a loss of common sense, attacking her teammates and then refusing to fight, until Minto [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!|slaps her back to sanity]]. We wouldn't blame her; after all, it ''was'' {{spoiler|her boyfriend and ex [[Mysterious Protector]], Masaya}}.
* In ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'', after Enishi defeats Kenshin, he {{spoiler|[[Faking the Dead|fakes Kaoru's death]] ''[[Faking the Dead|very]]'' [[Faking the Dead|realistically]] }}, causing Kenshin to go into shock and spend a good few weeks catatonic in Rakuninmura (a village for people who no longer have anything to live for), [[Ten Minute Retirement|with his sword chained shut]]. It takes {{spoiler|Yakiho almost being killed}} to return.
** And it happens to Enishi as well when Kenshin finally defeats him. {{spoiler|He eventually regains enough strength of mind to escape from captivity but as Kenshin notes in his current state he's simply incapable of hurting anyone.}}
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** Same happens to {{spoiler|Misao}}, when Okina asks Kenshin to kill {{spoiler|Aoshi for his own good.}} She recovers when Kenshin says he won't do it.
* In ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'', {{spoiler|Touga defeats Utena, causing Rose Bride Anthy to be engaged to him. Utena ends up wearing a girl's uniform and behaving like a [[Proper Lady]] afterwards, until she's called out by Wakaba and recovers her strength.}} Wakaba ends up {{spoiler|being the one to snap Utena out of it and seek a rematch with Touga.}}
** Touga's sister [[Alpha Bitch|Nanami]] gets one of these later on in the series after {{spoiler|[[Squick|she finds out]] [[Brother
* ''[[Trigun]]'': Vash the Stampede is induced (forced by Legato through mind control) to fire the super-weapon built into his arm, causing a catastrophic explosion that incinerates an entire city and burns a massive crater into one of the planet's moons. The next episode has him disappear, where other characters discover he has assumed a new identity as a simple farmer.
** Vash suffers a second Heroic BSOD when, for the first time in his life, Vash was forced to shatter his long-held pacifism and [[Shoot the Dog|kill someone]] {{spoiler|(Legato)}} to save the life of his friends Milly and Meryl. He spends the entirety of the next episode in an emotional, nearly catatonic breakdown.
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** In the second season, poor {{spoiler|Louise Halevy}} has ''several'' of those in different degrees, {{spoiler|as a side effect of her [[Ill Girl|medical treatment]].}}
** Not to mention {{spoiler|Saji Crossroad, who had his BSOD moment when he realises he's responsible for the death of all the Katharon members.}}
** In S2 ep 20 {{spoiler|Lyle Dylandy}} has his own BSOD after his {{spoiler|girlfriend [[Star
* {{spoiler|Kamille Bidan}} suffers a massive one at the end of ''[[Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (Anime)|Zeta Gundam]]'', after being on the receiving end of a [[Mind Rape]] by {{spoiler|Scirocco}}. He starts babbling like a child and then shortly falls into near-catatonia. It takes him most of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (Anime)|Gundam ZZ]]'' to recover from this.
* [[Gundam Unicorn|Banagher]] [[Reluctant Warrior|Links]] has one in episode 4 after {{spoiler|killing Gilboa Sant, a Neo-Zeon pilot who sheltered him, and crashing the Garencieres into the desert by grabbing it during re-entry}}. He gets over it by having a good cry shortly afterwards, {{spoiler|only for him to have another one after he fails to talk Loni down from her rampage at Torrington}}.
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* Subaru in the ''[[Mega Man Star Force|Ryuusei no Rockman]]'' anime has one when the villain of the week informs him that his alien partner whom he fuses with to become Rockman {{spoiler|killed his father}}. The shock of the revelation is enough that his body literally forces itself away from said partner and he reverts to normal. Four hundred feet above the ground. Whoops.
* Fate of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' got one in the first season after {{spoiler|she discovers [[Cloning Blues|what she is]]}}, followed by a tirade from [[Evil Matriarch|her mother]], Precia, that ends with her stating how much she has despised Fate ever since she was born. The mind of [[The Woobie|poor]], [[Love Martyr]] Fate simply couldn't take it and temporarily shut down in despair.
** She almost had another in ''Striker's S'' when [[Mad Scientist|Jail Scaglietti]] subjects her to a cruel [[Hannibal Lecture]] about how she is raising Caro and Erio, which in Jail's opinion [[Not So Different|makes her just as evil as Precia]], as he claims that she influenced them to love her unconditionally and do anything she wants because she is afraid of being abandoned. She's luckier this time, though, since Erio and Caro go all "[[Shut UP, Hannibal]]" on Jail and reassure Fate that they love her and chose their own paths, which gives her enough [[Heroic Resolve]] to defeat Jail.
** Also in ''Striker's S'', Nanoha has a brief one when Vivio is kidnapped. At first she continues to carry out her duties through sheer willpower, but when she finishes and no longer has anything to distract her, she breaks down crying in Fate's arms. Of course, being [[Determinator|Nanoha]], she doesn't let her emotions keep her down, and channels them into rescuing Vivio and kicking the crap out of her enemies.
* Sousuke spends a significant portion of ''[[Full Metal Panic]] The Second Raid'' in the throes of a [[Heroic BSOD]] after he's ordered to cease serving as Kaname's bodyguard and cut off all contact with her. Eventually it gets bad enough that he simply walks away in the middle of a mission and wanders aimlessly around Hong Kong, getting a bottle of scotch and picking up (or allowing himself to be picked up by) a prostitute who looks like Kaname. And then [[It Got Worse|It Gets Worse]]...
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* ''[[Gravion]] Zwei'' has ''three'' people suffering [[Heroic BSOD]] in a relatively close time together:
** Leele after finding out that {{spoiler|Sandman is her father}} (no thanks to [[The White Prince|Touga]]), right after finding out her real name {{spoiler|Leele Zeravire, which means she is connected with the invading enemies}}, was too much in a shock she goes into a frantic walk that got her slipping off the bridge falling to the lake.
** Then, Touga, based on those events regarding on Leele (and [[What the Hell, Hero?|being called out]] by Eiji), made worse by {{spoiler|Eina's [[Heroic Sacrifice]] for his sake}}, eventually fell into one, leaving the castle, hanging in silence in the slums and lets himself be a victim of beating by punks (and here, we speak about some sort of [[Tyke Bomb]] with fighting skills)
** And meanwhile, Sandman, after hearing all the disasters and how his past caught up with him along with how Gravion is losing as well as {{spoiler|his brother's coming with Zeravire}}, finally fell into it. He got reprimanded by Raven {{spoiler|or to be exact his lover Ayaka}} and quickly got back to his composure.
* [[Madlax]] completely lost the will to live after {{spoiler|her love interest Vanessa was apparently killed. Nakhl and Elenore pointed out that Madlax had specifically promised Vanessa to live, though, and so Madlax was able to carry on until the series' [[Mind Screw]] of an [[Earn Your Happy Ending]].}}
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* Lina Inverse of ''[[Slayers]]'' undergoes this briefly at the end of season two. In her defense, {{spoiler|a dark lord was killing her love interest ''and'' all of her friends like they were nothing, and was about to destroy their souls as well in an attempt to get her to destroy the world by casting a particular spell}}. [[Sadistic Choice|No win situation, much?]]
** ...Of course, one could argue that what happened {{spoiler|after she ''did'' cast the spell}} was, in fact, the ultimate [[Heroic BSOD]], {{spoiler|as the Lord Of Nightmares completely takes over Lina, pretty much ''killing'' her}}.
** She nearly had another one a few episodes earlier, when she was attacked by the zombified citizens of Sylphiel's [[Doomed Hometown]], reanimated as puppets by the aforementioned dark lord. In self-defense, she stabbed a little girl who was attacking her with a knife; upon realizing it, [[Wouldn't Hurt a Child|poor Lina]] nearly lost it and started screaming in horror ("I... I killed a child? It was a little girl! [[This Cannot Be!|It can't be, it can't be, IT CAN'T BE!]]") -- until Sylphiel gave her a [[Cooldown Hug]] and reminded her that the child, and all the people attacking her, were already dead.
*** And in the original series, Sylphiel had two pretty serious BSOD's. One, when her aforementioned hometown was destroyed, and another when {{spoiler|she wasn't sure if her powers were enough to save a critically injured Lina, who had taken a huge energy blast for her.}}
* Tamaki of ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' has a pretty epic one during one of Casanova... Bossa Nova... er, [[My Name Is Not Durwood|Kasanoda's]] visits to the music room, when he realizes he ''actually isn't'' Haruhi's father (and realizes the [[Parental Incest|strange]] [[Wife Husbandry|implications]] that being her father would carry). Played entirely for laughs.
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** She got another way earlier, in episode 7. A mob -enraged at having their hometown leveld by two battling [[Humongous Mecha]]- threw stones to her father, landing him in the hospital, and almost broke in the Institute. She was so upset and distraught she considered quitting of battling.
** And in the original manga, Kouji has another in an early chapter after being forced to kill an Iron Mask. He remained [http://www.mangareader.net/735-34819-161/mazinger-z/chapter-1.html kneeled] and [http://www.mangareader.net/735-34819-162/mazinger-z/chapter-1.html shaking].
** And in ''[[Great Mazinger (Anime)|Great Mazinger]]'', Tetsuya Tsurugi has one after realizing {{spoiler|his adoptive father pulled an [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to save his life}} and it would not have happened {{spoiler|if he would not have been so jealousy from Kouji he refused helping him when he was in danger.}} After the inicial [[My God, What Have I Done?]] his reactions varied: in the anime he went into a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] and after, as he lying down on a hospital bed, he rambled about how [[
** ''[[UFO Robo Grendizer (Anime)|UFO Robo Grendizer]]'': When a Vegan spy reveals to Duke that {{spoiler|the Saucer Beasts he's been fighting are powered by the minds of his home planet's slain people (including ''[[Powered By a Forsaken Child|his own little brother]]'')}}, he flips out completely. Luckily, Kouji and Dr. Umon snap him out of it sometime afterwards.
* During the Great Eclipse in ''[[Berserk]]'', Guts briefly experiences a [[Heroic BSOD]]. Casca, on the other hand, ''[[Break the Cutie|thoroughly]]'' experiences hers, to the point of being driven completely insane. Those who have seen the Eclipse in action know that this need not be elaborated further.
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** Earlier in the franchise [[Digimon Adventure|(the first season)]] Tai has one. After having been convinced that he cannot die in the Digital World, his carelessness gets [[Tomboy|Sora]] captured. He is then told by Koushirou that he CAN die in the Digital World, and when confronted by a dangerous wall he had carelessly passed through earlier, he BSOD's.
*** Izzy himself suffered a huge one {{spoiler|upon accidentally learning that he's an adoptive child. He got better of that, but lots of insecurities remain hidden for a long time, and only halfway through the series he fully can get free of them.}}
*** And then there's [[Canon Immigrant|Ryo Akiyama]], in the [[No Export for You|Japan-only]] Wonderswan games he stars in - in ''D-1 Tamers'', the Digidestined manipulate him via a tournament to get him to train hard enough to defeat Moon-Millenniumon. When they ''do'' tell him the truth, it's a bit late to apologize - he closes himself off from everyone else, his blue screen lasting into the next game. You kinda have to wonder [[What an Idiot!|what the hell the Digidestined were thinking]] when they came up with ''that'' plan.
*** In their defense (this goes both for Tamers and Digidestined), the oldest is what? thirteen?
*** Also, the children didn't actually ''know'' at first. The sovereigns came up with the whole plan and clued them in later. If anyone, be mad at them.
* Blade/Takaya/D-Boy in ''[[Tekkaman Blade (Anime)|Tekkaman Blade]]'' starts suffering hallucinations and nightmares that cause him to be unable to fight after his corrupted sibling Saber/Shinya/Evil causes him to overstay his [[Hour of Power]] and suffer a [[Face Heel Turn]]. While he was brought back to normal, he almost tore apart one of his friends before he snapped out of it, and things come to a head when the military reveals its new [[Power Armor|Teknosuits]] and he gets arrested. He is left an utter wreck until Aki/Star [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!|slaps and shouts some sense into him]].
* In ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho (Manga)|Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', as Yusuke is getting the tar beaten out of him by Younger Toguro, Keiko, unable to bear seeing her boyfriend go through such unimaginable agony, snaps and becomes completly catatonic for one and a half episodes.
* Tenma and Nina go through a large number of these in ''[[Monster (Anime)|Monster]]''. Nina's goes as far as to verge on suicide, but Tenma thankfully saves her.
* In ''[[Trinity Blood]]'', Abel spends the day/episode in one of these when {{spoiler|Noelle dies.}}
** There are also a few scenes throughout the series where Abel will come to a screeching halt, usually when he loses control of himself due to the [[Super
* In ''[[Fresh Pretty Cure]]'', Setsuna goes through a depression after {{spoiler|Chiffon/Infinity gets kidnapped}}, and in episode 45 she expresses her fear of becoming Eas again. One can guess she's relieved when, during the scene where the Cures {{spoiler|reveal their identities}}, she becomes Cure Passion anyway.
** Love suffers one in [[The Movie]] when she finds out her doll Usapyon is a part of the movie's [[Big Bad]] ToyMajin, making her think that she had the same resentment as the rest of the toys within him. Miki has to [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!|slap Love]] to get her back in the game.
* ''[[Loveless]]'' the manga (possibly the anime too if they ever make a second season following the manga): Soubi has a complete and utter Heroic BSOD when he {{spoiler|not only discovers that his previous Sacrifice, who had staged his own death, was well and truly alive, but was ordered by said Sacrifice to destroy the windows of the compound he is trapped in so that he can make his escape. (Keep in mind the Sacrifice is a serious bad guy and would routinely torture the sh* t out of Soubi, who was rather powerless to defend himself, given his status as the Fighter unit.) Following the escape, Soubi breaks down to the obvious horror of those who care about him, especially Ritsuka. Soubi says over and over in a quiet voice, "I don't want to," meaning he didn't want to help the Sacrifice escape, but had no choice.}}
* Shingo from ''[[Bio Meat]]'' has not one, but three of these. First is when he's thirteen and {{spoiler|leads a group of BM onto a room full of survivors and kills everyone but a six-year-old girl}}, then a minor one when {{spoiler|he fails to keep the BM from escaping into Takachiho, which was hardly his fault anyway}}, and another one after he fails to {{spoiler|keep his more than a little messed-up father from committing suicide}}. It's even better that he's not technically considered to be the [[Big Hero]].
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* In ''[[Kitchen Princess]]'', Najika loses her sense of taste after {{spoiler|Sora dies after a truck hits him as he's crossing the street, holding vanilla beans he meant to give to Najika.}} She later {{spoiler|loses}} the competition that he was bringing the ingredient to her for.
* In ''[[Ride Back]]'', Rin undergoes a monstrous BSOD (even her friends can't help her out of it) when {{spoiler|her friend Suzuri gets killed because the government thinks it's her, and that [[Wham Episode|she's a terrorist]]}}.
* ''[[Ah! My Goddess (Manga)|Ah My Goddess]]'' plays this for laughs. Whenever something happens that makes Belldandy jealous, she blanks out, her eyes go wide, and she stares off into the distance. She does this because jealousy is so unfamiliar to her that she can't handle it. Her jealousy also sometimes manifests itself paranormally -- nearby glass shatters, the power goes out, pipes burst, and there's sometimes an explosion. Often, this will put a stop to whatever was making Belldandy jealous so she can just snap out of it.
* ''[[Baki the Grappler]]'' gets one when his mother beats him and chews him out for not being as strong as his father. He's so bummed afterwards that he doesn't even defend himself when three punks start roughing him up. Fortunately, [[Friendly Enemy|Hanayama]] comes along and snaps him out of it.
* In ''[[D 4 Princess]]'', the main character gets one when {{spoiler|one of her opponents is killed in an accident during battle}} and doesn't snap out of it until near the end of the series. It didn't help that the rest of her school didn't seem to care that someone had ''died''.
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** Takehiko Henmi, Nanako's "Oniisama" aka her [[Big Brother Mentor]], suffers a milder one in the anime {{spoiler|when he learns that his girlfriend Kaoru might have a relapse on her breast cancer, which all but states that she will die in less than four years. He recovers relatively quickly, however.}}
** In the past, {{spoiler|Professor Misonou}} also suffered a pretty bad one, [[Drowning My Sorrows|drinking himself into a stupor for several days]] after {{spoiler|his marriage ends in an horrible note and his wife not only leaves him, but takes their son away -- which, considering Japanese laws on divorce, means that ''he'll likely never see said son again''. And the son? He is then-10-year-old Takehiko.}}
* In ''[[Heartcatch Precure]]'', Yuri suffers two of them. The first happens before the beginning {{spoiler|after suffering a major loss during a [[Curb Stomp Battle]] by Cure Dark, leaving her powerless and partnerless}}. She gets a second, minor one near the end when {{spoiler|she finds out that Professor Saabaku, the man who created Cure Dark, was [[Luke, I Am Your Father|her missing father]]}}.
* In ''[[Mobile Fighter G Gundam (Anime)|G Gundam]]'', Rain suffers a pretty big one (bordering on [[Despair Event Horizon]] crossing) when she finds out that her father {{spoiler|basically destroyed the Kasshu family and used her and the last surviving/conscious member of that family (who she just happened to be in love with) in his schemes}}.
** Domon himself goes through a couple when {{spoiler|Rain leaves him as the result of her BSOD and becomes the core life unit of the Devil Gundam}}.
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